[Genetica-dbb] hazardous waste disposal

[Deborah recchia]

Dear Stefano,
Thanks a lot for your notice!
We will take care about the reagents and the alipac.

All the best,
Deborah Recchia, Ph.D

Il Lun 20 Ott 2025, 11:44 Stefano Rovida <stefano.rovida a unipv.it> ha
scritto:

> Dear All,
>
> together with Viola, Claudia and Annamaria (in cc), we are making a major
> effort to collect all old, sometime almost prehistoric, reagents *not
> anymore in use *that have accumulated in the Genetics & Microbiology
> Building in the course of years and that need to be discarded. There are
> very precise and strict safety rules for their storage, transport and final
> disposal. Each discarded reagent must be classified based on its quantity,
> packaging, danger, and requires to be accompanied by its safety data sheet.
> Reagents have to be collected in blue 30 liter drums full of inert
> material; not all reagents can be collected in the same drum. As you might
> imagine, disposal is very expensive. We pay for each drum, for each bag of
> inert material, and according to weight. Moreover, due to the large amount
> of bottles, tanks, various types of containers (some of them without any
> label!!!!) costs for this disposal are *levitating*. Thus, any
> inattention and error in this disposal process cost additional money to the
> DBB, *and we do not have money to waste*.
> We kindly ask all research groups, from now on, for maximum cooperation in
> checking their reagent stocks in order to avoid unnecessary purchases,
> especially when such reagents are already available.
> Please promptly report the presence of expired or otherwise unusable
> reagents.
> Even if unused, some reagents might still be useful to other groups, as
> has recently occurred.
> We also ask that all waste be labeled with as much information as possible
> to help identify its level of hazard, since *any unknown substance* must
> be analyzed by the disposal company—an *extremely costly process*.
>
> Furthermore, all other internal rules for the preparation of alipak and
> hazardous liquid tanks (code 070101; 070703; 070704) must be followed as
> usual.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Stefano, Viola, Claudia, Annamaria
>
>
> --
> Stefano Rovida
> Biocrystallography Lab
> Dept. of Biology and Biotechnologies
> "Lazzaro Spallanzani"
> University of Pavia
> via Ferrata, 9
> 27100 PAVIA
> Italy
> tel. +39 (0)382-985572 - 5534
>
> stefano.rovida a unipv.it
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